Accident Quotes

1026 Accident quotes by 833 unique authors

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident. — Timothy Keller
Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal… — Aviva Chomsky
That which achieves its effect by accident is not art. — Seneca the Younger
One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident. — Elbert Hubbard
It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance. — Joseph Conrad
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown… — James Bryce
Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will… — John Steinbeck
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. — Wallace Stegner
Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether… — Diana Trilling
No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error. — Georges Duhamel
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to… — Hannah Arendt
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise… — Edward Dahlberg
Peace is not something that happens by accident. Peace is like silence; it is always there. The lack of harmony in our lives is like… — Gabriel Cousens
I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this… — Fareed Zakaria
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the… — Don DeLillo
The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug. — Peter Kay
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism. — Gunnar Myrdal
I had a terrible motorcycle accident, in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known… — William Lucking
It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. — Shemar Moore
Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in… — Vic Morrow
My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries.… — Gary Lineker
I became a children's author by accident. — Jerry Spinelli
I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom… — Michael Shannon
When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work. — Ryan Tedder

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